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The Trench

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France, United Kingdom · 1999
1h 38m
Director William Boyd
Starring Daniel Craig, Danny Dyer, James D'Arcy, Paul Nicholls
Genre War, History

A group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in British military history. Against this ill-fated backdrop, the movie depicts the soldiers' experience as a mixture of boredom, fear, panic, and restlessness, confined to a trench on the front lines.

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70

Variety by David Rooney

Soberly and intelligently examines the fear, frustration, anxiety, animosity and boredom of waiting to advance into the terrifying other world that lies over the lip of the trenches.

50

Chicago Reader by Fred Camper

Boyd brings no new insights to this drama of men in a confined space, a situation that's been the basis for many powerful war films.

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